Maybe More Prominent Republicans Should Go Public with How They Feel About Trump

PoliticsMaybe More Prominent Republicans Should Go Public with How They Feel About Trump

An idea.

The big scuttlebutt out of Washington today is that a few of Colin Powell's private emails were obtained through unclear means, and published. In them, the former Secretary of State lights into Donald Trump, calling the presidential candidate a "disgrace" and an "international pariah" whose witch hunt for President Obama's birth certificate was unequivocally "racist." Mmmhmm.

“Yup, the whole birther movement was racist,” Powell wrote. “That’s
what the 99% believe. When Trump couldn’t keep that up he said he also
wanted to see if the certificate noted that he was a Muslim.”

Powell told BuzzFeed News, “I have no further comment. I’m not denying
it.”

“As I have said before, ‘What if he was?’ Muslims are born as
Americans everyday,” Powell wrote to his former aide.

The leaks come in the wake of a separate report in which a number of anonymous Republican operatives were "terrified" at the prospect of a Trump presidency. And really, who could blame them? Trump is historically unqualified to be president, yet here we are.

So—bear with me now—here's a maybe silly idea: Why don't more prominent Republicans averse to a Trump-led America—and there are quite a few out there—I don't know, say something publicly instead of grumbling to their peers in emails? Just a thought.

Ralphie

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